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Investigating a wide range of disciplinary and cultural concerns, "Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity" challenges conventional understandings of identity based on notion of nation and culture as bounded or discrete. Through careful examinations of various transnational, hybrid, border, and diasporic forces and practices, these essays push at the edge of cultural studies, postmodernism, and postcolonial theory and raise crucial questions about ethnographic methodology. This volume exemplifies a cross ...
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Investigating a wide range of disciplinary and cultural concerns, "Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity" challenges conventional understandings of identity based on notion of nation and culture as bounded or discrete. Through careful examinations of various transnational, hybrid, border, and diasporic forces and practices, these essays push at the edge of cultural studies, postmodernism, and postcolonial theory and raise crucial questions about ethnographic methodology. This volume exemplifies a cross-disciplinary cultural studies rooted in lived experience as well as textual readings. Anthropologists and scholars from related fields deploy a range of methodologies and styles of writing to blur and complicate conventional dualism between authors and subjects of research, home and away, center and periphery, and first and third world. Essays discuss topics such as rai, a North African pop music viewed as westernized in Algeria and as Arab music in France; the place of Sephardic and Palestinian writers within Israel's Ashkenazic-dominated arts community; and the use and misuse of the concept "postcolonial" as it is applied in various regional contexts.
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